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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it’s rare that you get to explore that in a film.
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Communication Energy Eye
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender.
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Heart Lonely Mean
I’m always able to find light moments on any set, no matter what. Just because a scene is heavy doesn’t mean that you have to be heavy, all day long. I was working with people who had a sense of humor and wanted to have those light moments with me.
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Light Long Mean
My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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Forever Friends Sane
Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
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Daughter Love Mother
When you loose something or someone that your really care about, that’s all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don’t care about that. You don’t care about that at all.
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About Care Lose Someone Something
I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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Hello Kitty Thinking
The gunshot holds no fear!
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Fear Gunshot No
I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
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Different Lucky World
I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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Beach Girl Hats
Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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Brows Done Eyebrows
If I see a movie on TV that I’m in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It’s like I’m watching another person.
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Reason Television Watches
With all of the characters I’ve played, I feel like I’ve tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That’s something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.
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Character Eye Play
You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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Friend Our Family Stay True True
I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it’s all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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Believe Fire Men
My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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Jobs Mind Thought
I’ve been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn’t ask for a more enriched life so far.
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Crazy Opportunity Years
The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that’s so unfair is that we call them ‘big’ and ‘small’ because when something happens to you.
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Care Loose May Something World Wrong
I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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Actresses Ballerina Two
You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else’s advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
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Advice Committed Hundred
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Baby Home Sister
One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
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Different Favorites Real Things
I played the young Reese Witherspoon in ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
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Boys Home Sweet
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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Actresses Andrew Country Favorite Person
I love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
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Character Feeling Reading
It’s hard to remember when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That’s so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who’s sometimes in those magazines.
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Insecurity Looks People
There’s just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It’s an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I’m really appreciating it and valuing that.
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Appreciating Connection Knowing

I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

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